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The Education Law Center has posted profiles of each of the 31 Abbott school districts. The profiles contain information on 65 separate "indicators" or data points about the community, the school children, the teachers and the schools. These indicators can be found at the District Profiles section of the ELC web site. Information can be compared across all Abbott districts and to the average in the state.

These web profiles and the data contained in them are part of ELC’s "Abbott Indicators Project" the aim of which is to inform and engage stakeholders at the local and state levels about the status of urban school reform in New Jersey and student outcomes to date.

The comprehensive web profiles contain a sampling of over 200 indicators that have been compiled at the Education Law Center over the past 3 years - some of the information dates back as far as the 1994-95 school year. The Abbott Indicators Project team and its community partners have used the information to publish articles and make presentations throughout the state. ELC shares data and provides advocacy support with its project partners in Camden, Newark, Trenton, Union City, Irvington, Paterson, and Asbury Park. In the next few months, ELC will unveil a streamlined data management system that will allow individuals to generate ad hoc Abbott Indicators reports about any school district.

For more information about the web profiles, contact Al Passarella, ELC Research Assistant, at apassarella@edlawcenter.org or 973.624.1815, x24. For more information about the project, contact Lesley Hirsch, Project Director, lhirsch@edlawcenter.org or 973.624.1815, x15.